4,791 terms are nouns

q̓apq̓aplí

Hard soled shoe. [NP /q̓awq̓áw̓lapqat/.]

q̓apq̓apłá

Barn owl, Tyto alba. [NP /k̓pk̓pno/.]

q̓áyaš

Buttocks. See also ít̓it. [WS & NW q̓iyáš.]

q̓ayík

Colt, calf, calf elk, adopted colt or calf (as when put with a new mother). k̓ʷáy áwa q̓ayík ‘that’s her adopted calf’. Diminutive: k̓ayík. [NP /qeˀeyik/.]

q̓áyq̓ay

Elk calf, horse colt. anwimá iwá q̓áyq̓ay ‘it’s a yearling colt/calf’. Diminutive: k̓áyk̓ay. [NP /qeˀeyik/.]

q̓ayq̓áy

Carrion beetle. Hunn 1990:314.

q̓ayx̣q̓áyx̣

White horse with pink eyes and pink skin, albino horse.

q̓ímx̣

Rope, braided rope. q̓ímx̣ki patamástkɨnx̣ana k̓úsi ‘they used to rope their horses with a braided rope’. Though used, this is the NE term—see wátisas. [NP /tewtes/.]

q̓íya

Fish hook, hook. pipšmí q̓íya ‘bone fishhook’; wawaaq̓íyak ‘snag fish’. [NE wac̓ilaktpamá; NP /waw̓a/; k̓iˀíla /k̓iˀla/ ‘gaff hook’.]

q̓íyat

Fish slime.

Kalapuya

K̓alapúya (the native people of the Willamette Valley in western Oregon).

Keeper

naknuwiłá ‘care taker, God’.

Keepsake

wináanakʷi wapáwat ‘keepsake clothes (from the deceased)’.

q̓ɨłq̓ɨ́ł

Crackers. Also q̓ałq̓áł. [NP q̓ełq̓éł /q̓łq̓´ł/; k̓ałk̓áł /k̓łk̓´ł/.]

Kestrel

yítyit ‘American kestrel, Falco sparverius‘.

Kettle

twašat̓áwas ‘boiling-vessel’.

Key

laklí; waxʷłkáwas; čax̣ʷłkáwas ‘opener, can opener’.

q̓míił

Crevice, place where one passes through with big rocks on each side, rocky pathway. [Cf. q̓mɨ́ł ‘cliff’; qamíł ‘canyon’; qɨwíił ‘open, clear’; x̣ɨwúš ‘brook, ravine, canyon’.]

q̓ɨ́mkas

Origin:

q̓ɨ́mk + -as


Definition:

Shoulder, upper arm; draw knife (for scraping hides, made out of rib); tepee shoulder poles (there are two – they’re also called súwapx̣ʷaamit).


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[NP /huhuy/.]

q̓ɨmkáwas

Scraper; scraping pole. Name for both the scraper and the pole upon which the hide is stretched. paˀaníx̣ana q̓ɨmkáwas wawukyanmíkni x̣pɨ́tkni ‘they used to make their scraper out of elk rib’. [NP /típsaˀs/ ‘scraper’.]